209. Notes the UN's apparent failure properly to apply the financing agreement signed between the Commission and the UN regarding the European Agency for Reconstruction, leaving the Court of Auditors frequently unable to have adequate financial control of payments and underlying documents concerning contracts managed or overseen by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK); notes the statement by the Deputy Special Representati ...[+++]ve of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to grant full access to all files at the request of the Court; urges however the Commission to review the financing agreement with the UN; asks the Commission to bring forward a proposal extending the mandate of the reconstruction agency so that it may be used to provide reconstruction assistance wherever needed e.g. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the countries affected by the Tsunami, as a second stage after immediate humanitarian needs have been addressed by ECHO;

6. Is of the opinion that the EU, in agreement with the Member States, should be more actively involved in UN programmes (by taking part at the initial stage, when needs are assessed and appropriate responses worked out, and thereafter, when the decisions are implemented) and that the EU should use the intergovernmental conference (IGC) scheduled for 2004 as the occasion on which to clarify the issues surrounding the legal basis for its external action within the context of international law, and should in particular specify and strengthen the Commission's legal status in international institutions and grant it membership status in the speci ...[+++]alised UN agencies in the same way as it is a member of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); calls, likewise, for the nature of and means available to the Commission delegations to the United Nations to be brought into line with the increasingly important role which they play in implementing EU external action in general, and in the field of development and humanitarian aid in particular, as well as in the area of coordination between the Commission and the 15 Member States, so as to guarantee that EU action in this field is consistent and of global significance;

6. Is of the opinion that the EU, in agreement with the Member States, should be more actively involved in UN programmes (by taking part at the initial stage, when needs are assessed and appropriate responses worked out, and thereafter, when the decisions are implemented) and that the EU should use the intergovernmental conference (IGC) scheduled for 2004 as the occasion on which to clarify the issues surrounding the legal basis for its external action within the context of international law, and should in particular specify and strengthen the Commission’s legal status in international institutions and grant it membership status in the speci ...[+++]alised UN agencies in the same way as it is a member of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO); calls, likewise, for the nature of and means available to the Commission delegations to the United Nations to be brought into line with the increasingly important role which they play in implementing EU external action in general, and in the field of development and humanitarian aid in particular, as well as in the area of coordination between the Commission and the 15 Member States, so as to guarantee that EU action in this field is consistent and of global significance;

If there is discrepancy in this number from the 102 officially recognized by the Canadian government, my figure comes from the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association which includes those peacekeepers who were committed with UNCMAC, the United Nations military command armistice commission for Korea, and those who have committed suicide while on a mission or following a mission.

The next Canadian peacekeeping commitment was UNCMAC, the United Nations command military armistice commission for Korea, which commenced in 1953 and is still in being today.

18. Expresses support for the Environment and Security Initiative, which brings together the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environmental Programme, the OSCE, NATO, the United Nations Economic Commission in Europe, and the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, to assess environmental challenges, including those relating to water resource management, and to implement projects that raise awareness of thes ...[+++]e challenges, build capacities and strengthen institutions in order to address them;